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Cisco is stoppering critical holes in its SD-WAN solutions and its smart software manager satellite. Cisco is warning of multiple, critical vulnerabilities in its software-defined networking for wide-area networks (SD-WAN) solutions for business users. Cisco issued patches addressing eight buffer-overflow and command-injection SD-WAN vulnerabilities. The most serious of these flaws could be exploited by an unauthenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the affected system with r...

A phishing campaign spoofs Xerox notifications to lure victims into clicking on malicious HTML attachments.

Seven flaws in open-source software Dnsmasq could allow DNS cache poisoning attacks and remote code execution. Researchers have uncovered a set of flaws in dnsmasq, popular open-source software used for caching Domain Name System (DNS) responses for home and commercial routers and servers. The set of seven flaws are comprised of buffer overflow issues and flaws allowing for DNS cache-poisoning attacks (also known as DNS spoofing). If exploited, these flaws could be chained together to allow rem...

The attack vector was not the Orion platform but rather an email-protection application for Microsoft 365. Malwarebytes is the latest discovered victim of the SolarWinds hackers, the security company said – except that it wasn’t targeted through the SolarWinds platform. “While Malwarebytes does not use SolarWinds, we, like many other companies were recently targeted by the same threat actor,” it disclosed in a Tuesday web posting. Instead of using the SolarWinds Orion network-management...

Users of dating apps – like Tinder, Match and Bumble – should be on the lookout for investment-fraud scammers.

The company also issued patches for Tesla-based GPUs as part of an updated, separate security advisory. NVIDIA has newly disclosed three security vulnerabilities in the NVIDIA Shield TV, which could allow denial of service, escalation of privileges and data loss. The NVIDIA Shield TV is a set-top gadget that acts as a hub for the smart home, streams PC games from a gaming PC to a TV; and allows local and online media playback and streaming. Android games compatible with Android TV are compatibl...

minute read Share this article: Medical-device security has long been a challenge, suffering the same uphill management battle that the entire sprawling mess of IoT gadgets has faced. A hacked insulin pump is the last thing a diabetic wants to worry about when life-saving fluids are pumped into their body. Sadly, concerns about medical device IT security are a healthcare reality. Last year, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued more than a half-doz...

minute read Share this article: The tech giant removes 164 more offending Android apps after banning software showing this type of behavior from the store last year. Google has removed 164 apps, downloaded a total of 10 million times, from its Google Play marketplace because they were delivering “disruptive” ads, considered malicious. Last year, the tech giant banned apps that delivered this type of advertising, called out-of-context ads. But the problem continues to plague Goo...

Security researchers lambasted the controversial macOS Big Sur feature for exposing users' sensitive data.

The company announced accounts for ages 13-15 will default to privacy setting, among other safety measures.